Wendwilsonite
was named in 1987 by Pete J. Dunn, Bozidar Darko Sturman, Joseph A. Nelen
in honor of Dr. Wendell E. Wilson (1946 - ), editor and publisher of the
Mineralogical Record for his contributions to specimen mineralogy.

Wendwilsonite
was named in 1987 by Pete J. Dunn, Bozidar Darko Sturman, Joseph A. Nelen
in honor of Dr. Wendell E. Wilson (1946 - ), editor and publisher of the
Mineralogical Record magazine since 1976, for
his contributions to specimen mineralogy. Wilson was
also the recipient of the Carnegie Mineralogical Award
for 2001. The Mineralogical Record magazine is
highly respected, award-winning and is the premier journal for serious mineral collectors.
In 1982, The Mineralogical Record magazine
became the first (and is still the only) journal ever to be honored with the naming of a new mineral species (Minrecordite),
and again in 1994, when it became the first (and is still the only)
journal ever to win the prestigious Carnegie Mineralogical Award.

Wendwilsonite
is a rare secondary mineral in cobalt-bearing hydrothermal
mineral deposits and is the magnesium (Mg) analogue of Roselite.
In early 1985 Pete J. Dunn of the Department of Mineral
Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A. examined a pink mineral from Sterling Hill, New
Jersey. Analysis of the mineral showed it to be almost
identical to Roselite. However, Roselite has a cobalt
(Co)-dominant chemistry and the samples from Sterling
Hill, New Jersey as well as from Coahuila, Mexico
and many from Bou Azzer, Morocco, proved to be magnesium
(Mg)-dominant, and thus represented a new mineral species
and the creation of the Roselite-Wendwilsonite Series.
Samples of Wendwilsonite from Bou Azzer, Morocco consist
of pink glassy crystals, up to 6 mm in size, associated
with Talmessite and Erythrite on
altered ore and Calcite gangue.
At Sterling Hill, Wendwilsonite forms 0.5-mm crystals
with Calcite crystals on a serpentine, which encrusts
manganoan Calcite with very sparse Franklinite and
Willemite.
Only a few specimens are known, thus rare at this locality.

Distribution:
From Bou Azzer, Morocco. At Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg,
Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. From an unknown locality
in Coahuila, Mexico.

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